Georg Rudolf Weckherlin: The Embodiment of a Transitional Stage in German Metrics (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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The first quarter of the seventeenth century was fraught with great moment for the history of the development Of German metrics. Already for almost a century, there had been a vague, more or less unconscious, feeling that something was radically wrong with the metrical technique which had come into being during the two centuries following the decadence Of Middle High German poetry, and that a sweeping change must be made. Just exactly where the fault lay was by no means clear; indeed, many of the poets and theorists of the day saw no fault what soever, and, consequently, Opposed bitterly all attempts at change. But change there was, and that a very fundamental one. And it is for this reason that today we give, not to Kaiser Maximilian, nor even to Hans Sachs, but to the man who laid down the laws governing this change and put them into practical application in his own verses, the appellation of father of 'modern German poetry.

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